The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 92
I can tell you the words, but not the impressive tones, the animation of eye and accent, the eloquent gestures of this venerable Indian as he tells--what?
Who acts: I, wind · What happens: tell · To what, where: words, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tones | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tones | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tones | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tones | det |
| 11 | impressive | impressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tones | amod |
| 12 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 words | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 animation | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 animation | det |
| 15 | animation | animation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tones | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 eye | case |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 animation | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 accent | cc |
| 19 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 animation | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gestures | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gestures | det |
| 22 | eloquent | eloquent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gestures | amod |
| 23 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tones | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Indian | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Indian | nsubj |
| 26 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Indian | amod |
| 27 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gestures | acl:relcl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 tells | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tells | nsubj |
| 30 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Indian | advcl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 what | punct |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 tones | advcl:relcl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | I | the words the impressive tones the words the impressive tones the words and the animation of eye and accent and the eloquent gestures and the animation of eye and accent and the eloquent gestures | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient word=Topic | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | wind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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